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📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Released with Wayland, KWin, and Spectacle Fixes KDE Plasma 6.6.4 desktop environment fixes Wayland scaling, Spectacle crashes, KWin bugs, and several Plasma Desktop regressions. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-released-with-wayland-kwin-and-spectacle-fixes/ #kde#wayland#plasma

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Is Out to Reduce CPU and GPU Load for Full-Screen Windows KDE Plasma 6.6.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-is-out-to-reduce-cpu-and-gpu-load-for-full-screen-windows #kde#plasma

📰FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn't For Their OS Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptop-Matrix #kde

📰 KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7 The Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 desktop environment are making a major comeback with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 release. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-4s-air-theme-making-a-comeback-oxygen-gets-major-revamp-for-plasma-6-7 #kde#plasma

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Is Coming on June 16th, Here’s What to Expect The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment is expected on June 16th, 2026, with many new features and improvements. Here’s what’s to expect. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-7-desktop-environment-is-coming-on-june-16th-heres-what-to-expect #kde#plasma

📰 Netrunner 26 Released with XLibre Xserver, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” Netrunner 26 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.3.6 desktop environment with Linux kenrel 6.16. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/netrunner-26-released-with-xlibre-xserver-based-on-debian-13-trixie #kde#linux#gnu#debian#plasma

📰HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-14.0-Released #kde#opensource#chromium#gnome

📰 AerynOS March 2026 Update Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6.3, and Linux 6.18 AerynOS March alpha ISO brings GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, Linux kernel 6.18, and tooling improvements across moss and boulder. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-march-2026-update-brings-gnome-50-kde-6-6-3-and-linux-6-18/ #kde#linux#kernel#plasma#gnome

📰 Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source Hardware vendor Framework has now become a KDE Patron, offering financial support to further push open source like the Plasma desktop.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/framework-becomes-a-kde-patron-helping-to-fund-open-source/ #kde#opensource#plasma

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 will finally fix the most annoying part of tweaking your microphone volume As much as I hate hearing myself over a microphone, I have to admit that listening to yourself while adjusting your mic volume is vital. That way, you know you're not coming through too quietly or too loudly, and you can get a feel for the audio quality, too. Windows has had this feature for a while now, but unfortunately, KDE Plasma won't let you. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-67-will-finally-fix-the-most-annoying-part-of-tweaking-your-microphone-volume/ #kde#plasma

📰 KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step #kde

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04 In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-gnome-kde #amd#gnome#wayland#ubuntu#kde#plasma